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A rowboat floats on the flooded streets of Jeffersonville. Two individuals sit in the bow of the boat. To the left of the picture are several homes. beyond is a picket fence that was no threat to the flood waters. Debris floats in the water.

A blueprint copy from the Plat book (number 3.1. The map takes up less than half the right hand side of the page and indicated the town borders, the Ohio River, and different streams or creeks. An emblem graces the page just below the bend in the...

This image shows a two story log home with either an ell attached at the back, or a separate kitchen behind the home. Smoke is coming from the chimney. The house itself is perched on top of a bluff overlooking the Ohio River and is high enough for...

Originally the location of the Stauss Hotel, this corner building no longer exists, having been torn down sometime between 1983 and 2015. The original hotel building, a three story building with cellar, was badly damaged in teh March 1890 tornado,...

222 West Riverside was built by Nora Lyon (Mrs. James) Wathen (Mrs. John) Adams, the daughter in law of the Wathen who owned the Jeff Ferry Company. She had no descendents. The home burned sometime between 1980 and 1982. There were no residents...

The image shows a flatboat. There are several steamboats in the background. On the flatboat is a load of kegs. , The central cabin has a slightly curved roof on which rests a rowboat. One steersman stands on the cabin roof, the other on a box in...

This 1835 map of the Falls Cities area in its early year is used to show the entry and exit points of a canal that had been built to ease transportation around the falls. The canal ran across Jeffersonville. It fell into disuse and was filled in.

These 21 letters chronicle Arthur C. Stockwell’s experiences in the American Civil War. Arthur was born 22 July 1847 in Charlestown, Indiana. He mustered into the 137th Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry on 26 May 1864 in Indianapolis, Indiana....

The home at 304 West Riverside was known as the Read-Ransom House as it was built for Sarah Read (Mrs. Huett) Ransom. She had no descendents and by 1983, the house had been turned into an apartment building. Living at the house in 1984 were Laura...

A side-wheel packet, the Major Anderson, is docked. There is one wooden ramp mid-ships, a small rowboat between her and the shore. Several groups of men stand together at the far right hand side of the picture.

When the Kalmbach family first built and lived in this home, there were no street numbers assigned to the houses, just a description of its location along Front Street. Numbers arrived by 1903 and the family lived at 224 Front Street. By 1982,...

The image shows the interior courtyard of the United States Army Quartermaster Depot located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The wide pathway used by pedestrians and horse alike led from the front entrance on Tenth Street to the back entrance (shown)....

Ernest Schleicher, a soldier in Company I 38th Regiment Indiana Infantry, wrote letters home during the Civil War to Harriet Jackson of New Providence, Indiana. Ernest mustered in as a private in 1861 and was discharged in 1865 as a sergeant. These...

These are 3 election poll books from 1863, 1865, and 1867 that list voters and candidates for the Henryville Precinct in Monroe Township, Clark County, Indiana. The pages are large and were orginally sewn together in the middle with a cord.